This is not a political post.
This is a post about why politics are not good for my mental health. Because with news of Current Occupant possibly casually disclosing stuff that shouldn't be disclosed... I feel like i need to be checking for new news every few minutes. Which is not true. I should not be. I am not a part of the 24 hour news cycle. I so wish that the 24 hour news cycle was not a thing. It really is the worst sort of cycle. Far below motorcycles and bicycles and unicycles. Nowhere near popcycles. I want there to be a time when the news is really just put to bed. As if that ever happened. It just gets reported on more frequently now than in the printing-press only days. Nothing really changes all that fast, I tell myself. I don't need to check and recheck and then check again a few minutes later to see if anyone important has come forward with anything new. I am not interested in what my friends and family have to say. They agree with me or don't and are not more or less well-informed than I am. And the FB feed becomes this treacherous place where inflammatory quotations and hastily-written stories are traded back and forth without people even reading through them before they click "share." Really I want people in government to step forward and tell me personally in a real way that they will work together and that they are reasonable and smart people and they don't hate me and my family and my friends. And the streets will be paved with gold. And the Current Occupant will just decide that he doesn't want the job anymore. Because I think that's true. If there were just a way that he could bow out while saving face. This is not a political post. I had gotten better at not looking at the news so often. But now I feel like I have to. I wonder what I have missed right now. It is my OCD tendency that comes out. I want to correctly DO reading the news. And it keeps changing. So I have to keep up. But I never can. It is stressing me out to write about this. Ok more personal. More inward... I am excited about my gardening. I got a fig tree. I finished my final observation conference at work and it was fine and good. That's about it. Comments are closed.
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